PBS’ American Masters Series/Tennessee Williams
A brief overview of the master playwright from PBS’ American Masters series, an ongoing series of award-winning primetime specials examining the lives, works, and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural artists. Includes biographical info and major works plus a link to the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/williams_t.html

NPR’s Present at the Creation Series/A Streetcar Named Desire
The Present at the Creation series explored icons of American culture on NPR’s Morning Edition. In this 2002 article on the genesis and gestation of the play, Debbie Elliott digs into the history of the play to find out how Williams created this potent mix of raw emotion and sex that would become what theater critics would later call the best play of the 20th century.
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/featrues/patc/streetcar

Canal Street: A Street Railway Spectacular by H. George Friedman, Jr
An in-depth look at New Orleans ’ Canal Street and the origin and development of the city’s streetcars.
http://www-faculty.cs.uiuc.edu/~friedman/canal/Canal.htm